NEW YORK (Armenian Weekly)—Peter Balakian received the
2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry at the 100th anniversary Ceremony of the
Pulitzer Prizes held at Columbia University on October 13. Balakian was one of
the seven recipients in the fields of Letters, Drama, and Music.
Among the other recipients were Viet Thanh Nguyen in
fiction for his novel The Sympathizer, Lin-Manuel Miranda in drama for the
musical Hamilton, and jazz composer Henry Threadgill for “In for a Penny In for
a Pound.” Among the fourteen prizes in journalism were Kathryn Schultz for
Feature Writing at the New Yorker, Alyssa J. Rubin for International Reporting
at The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times Staff for Breaking News
Reporting.
Professor Daniele Allen, Director of the Edmond J. Safra
Center for Ethics at Harvard University, was the keynote speaker. The awards
were presented by Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University.
The Pulitzer committee cited Ozone Journal for “poems
that bear witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age
of danger and uncertainty.” Writing about Ozone Journal in Consequence
Magazine, Keith Jones wrote: “Balakian is a master of—the drifting,
split-second mirage, the cinematic dissolve and cross-cut as well as the
sculptural, statuesque moment chiseled out of consonant blends and an
imagistic, jazzman’s ear for vowels… beautiful, haunting, plaintive, urgent, in
our dying world’s age, these poems legislate a vital comportment to the demands
of our shared present, timely and untimely both.” And David Wojahn in Tikkun
wrote: “Few American poets of the boomer generation have explored the
interstices of public and personal history as deeply and urgently as has
Balakian.”
Balakian is the first Armenian American to be awarded a
Pulitzer Prize since William Saroyan in 1940.
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder
Not: Yalnızca bu blogun üyesi yorum gönderebilir.